"Juzzling" Debuts at w00tstock

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"Juzzling" Debuts at w00tstock

Mr. w00t and Mr. Stock in Seattle

The geek uprising has begun. The w00tstock festival is a cross-country tour hosted by actor Wil Wheaton, MythBusters host Adam Savage, and DaVinci's Notebook songsters Paul & Storm. Those folks asked me and my co-designer James Ernest to do up a little puzzle for the tour. This became a four-part puzzle in video form, in which James and I invent the pastime of "juzzling," or puzzle-juggling. (We might have called it "puggling," but that's one of these.) The diverse array of objects that we keep aloft form the basis of the puzzle.

Hundreds of people got the component parts, but the overall puzzle proved harder to crack. The solution was first found by Chicago w00tstock attendees Katje Sabin and Bill Gilliland, and tweeted at 9:37 during the following night's Minneapolis show. Chicago attendee Erin M. Perry was the next to conquer it, and then Seattle attendee Alice Enevoldsen solving with Unforum denizens Catherwood and Natas. To see the solution, click the link below.

__Solution »__Mr. Stock vexes Mr. w00t with some very specific items. They are:

Reading the first letters of each of these objects gets the following words: CRIME BOSS, CAMPSITE PEST, CLUTCHES, CRAFT OBJECT.

This is a cryptic clue where each word defines another word or an action. "Crime boss" equals DON, "campsite pest" equals TICK, "clutches" indicating taking the next word inside that one, and "craft object" equals BEAD.

Together, all that spells DON+T(BEAD)ICK, or Wil Wheaton's famous motto: DON'T BE A DICK.